“We wanted to do some kind of passport, like they do with Rickey Month or with other beer weeks that I’ve seen, with a promotion at a bunch of different bar,” explains Greg Jasgur, the beer director at Pizzeria Paradiso. “The idea is that badge gets you way more than $10 worth of savings.”

I bought my badge last night at ChurchKey, where I tried both of the Oxbow Farmhouse Pale Ales ($7, each with different hops) and the Jaipur IPA from England’s Thornbridge Brewery ($9). The check should have been $23 plus tax and tip. Instead, the base amount was $11.50. My badge already paid for itself, and there’s still most of the month to go.

Here’s the list of bars where you can buy a badge and score some discounted beer:

An extra bonus: Every time you use your button, the bar stamps a passport that can be printed from www.dcbeerweek.net or cut out of an ad in last week’s Washington City Paper. Anyone who receives stamps from all 15 bars is entered into a drawing for sweet prizes, including a $50 gift certificate from each establishment.

Each of the participating bars has 100 badges to sell — both Pizzeria Paradiso and Bourbon have two locations in D.C. — and Jasgur says that the money raised will be used to “grow D.C. Beer Week to be more than just [events at] craft beer bars. We do a lot of events throughout the week, beer dinners and brewery events, but we [regularly] do two beer dinners at month at Pizzeria Paradiso. We do brewery events and glass giveways every few weeks. We want to make [D.C. Beer Week] so that there are events on the Mall, or at Nationals Stadium or the 9:30 Club — something much bigger.”

This year, those goals include increasing the size of the D.C. Beer Week cruise on the Potomac, which sold out last year, and to help pay for an as-yet-unannounced “grand finale” event.

Fritz Hahn has covered bars, drinks and nightlife for the Washington Post Weekend Section since 2003, but he also writes about everything from Civil War battlefields to sailing classes. You can find him on Twitter and Instagram.

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